NOTES FROM THE FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD, June 15, 1925. 
I!TCF5RCEFT~ONS 
About the first of June an express parcel arrived at San Fran- 
cisco, Calif., from Hawaii, marked "Jams." Upon examining it, 
the collaborators of the Board found it to contain mangos and 
cooking bananas. This interception represented a deliberate 
attempt to violate Quarantine 13. The mangos wore found to 
be infested with maggots of the Mediterranean fr-j.it fly. She 
fruit was shipped in a pasteboard "box, thus affording every 
opportunity for the maggots to escape. Steps have been taken 
to "bring about the prosecution of the shipper. 
An identification was recently received for specimens of the 
Mediterranean fruit fly (Cera tit, is, cap! tat a ) which were taken 
by the inspectors at Boston on May 2C from loquats arriving ~oy 
m< 11 from the Azores. There were three boxes of loquats in 
the consignment, each containing about six quarts. The loquats 
were packed in sawdust and shredded corn husks. 
Since the last Tetter of Information was issued, several identi- 
fications have "been received for specimens of A nastrepha ludens 
Loew, the Mexican fruit fly, intercepted at Mexican border ports 
in manges from Mexico. Collections were male at Brownsville, 
Tex., on June 1; at El Paso .■, Tex. , on May IS, and at Laredo, 
Tex., on April 14, May 25, and June 3. 
Larvae and pupae of the West Indian fruit fly, Anastrepha frater- 
c ulus T .7ied. , were found hy inspectors at Philadelphia on May 25 
and at New York en June 11 infesting mangos from Jamaica.. 
A larva and pupa case of an unidentifiable species of Anastrepha 
were collected cy inspectors at Mew Orleans inside of a mango 
from Spanish Honduras on May 19. 
Thirty-five fruits of cherimoya were brought in in the baggage 
of a passenger arriving at New York from Peru on June 1 which, 
when found and examined by on inspector of the Board, proved to 
be infested with dipterous larvae. Fifteen larvae were collected. 
The specialist of the Bureau of Entomology could only identify 
them as to genus. Tiiey were classified as Anastrepha so. 
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